Door-hanger



(No Model.)

D. NICKEL.-

- DOOR HANGER.

No. 349.173. l

Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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DAVID NICKEL, OF MORRIS, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,173, dated September 14, 1886 y Application filed June 29, 1886. Serial No. 206,639. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID NICKEL, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Morris, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure I is a front elevation of my improved hanger, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

My improvement or invention relates more particularly to the method of attaching the depending portions of the hanger to the horizontal bar. Heretofore these two parts have been cast in one piece or fastened together with rivets; but when cast the metal has been of course brittle and unable to endure the strains or shocks which sometimes occur, and when riveted together they have no means of `preventing the racking and t-he consequent wearing of the rivets and separation of the parts. To overcome these difliculties and objectionls I make the horizontal or rider bar A with shoulders or lugsB at thepoint of juncture with the depending pdrti'ons C. These shoulders are made at a proper distance apart to admit the depending portions ofthe hanger between them, so as to it closely and snugly. This will be plain upon reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings. The parts are preferably provided with rivet-holes at their juncture, and a rivet is put through at each side of the hanger and properly headed down, or other convenient means of fastening the parts together employed. The only office of these rivets is to prevent i-'ertical'displacement of the parts and sustain the weight of the door. No lateral displacement can take place, as the shoulders on the rider-bar will prevent any tendency in that direction. By making my hangers in this Way, channeled steel, or such other metal as may bedesired, may be employed for the depending portions of the hanger. No racking or lateral strain can affect the attachment of the parts at the rivet, and consequently alltendency to Wear the same laterally is obviated, and as the parts are only subjected to a straight downward pull, occasioned by the Weight ofthe door, which weight is always steady-and constant, no practicable Wearing of the rivet can take place in that direction.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a door-hanger, the combination of a rider-bar provided with shoulders or lugs on its sideand depending portions fitted and fastened between such shoulders or lugs, substantially as described.

DAVID NICKEL.

"Witnesses:

J. C. CARR, J. W. MCKINDLEY. 

